Daniel May

As you can probably guess from the title – I’m openly looking for opportunities to speak at user groups and conferences – it’s something I’ve always been interested in and I’d absolutely love to do. I have a few things I’d potentially like to talk about – from my previous post you can probably tell I’m a massive advocate of learning – we work in an industry subject to Moore’s law. We can never be too clued up nor would we want to be out of the loop.

I previously submitted the following session for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 8 conference and would be more than happy to present it at your local user group and / or conference if it sounds like something you and your attendees may be interested in:

Learning the ‘right’ way

There are many different methods of learning how to develop, design and manage
effectively, efficiently and do things in the ‘right’ way. This begs the
question – what is the ‘right’ way?
Is it via reading books, reading blogs, or not reading at all?
Is it via pair-programming, code reviews, and how does this affect the
learning process?
In this session, Daniel May will be going over the common ways to learn a new
language, pattern or aspect of development and design, and suggesting
improvements and recommendations to these methods.
Subjects covered will include learning from books including publication choices
and recommendations, learning via pair-programming and code reviews, learning in
the workplace with internships, official Microsoft training (.NET) and much
more.

This is the only session I have a complete (ie 100% finished) presentation for – however I am able to create session agendas for the following subjects; “Beginning Silverlight Development from a WPF background”, “Best Practices – Just how ‘best’ are they?” and “Learning to not dread fridays”. All of these are sessions in progress at the moment and I’d be more than happy to finish them off in due time should there be a demand for them.

If you are interested in any of these sessions or have any questions, please do not hesitate send me a mail at daniel[at]danielmay.co.uk. (Note: This isn’t only open to opportunities in the UK!)